Systems Platform Manager
Job Description
Systems Platform Manager6 monthsIpswich - hybridInside IR35 - umbrella onlyAbout this roleThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of the team that develops and operates the UK's largest Public Wifi network. We need a systems administrator with strong Linux skills and experience of managing a large scale high availability platform to help support an existing legacy platform and play a part in defining the systems administration for a new platform.The team you will be joining supports a platform that provides Wifi to premium partners, consumers and mobile customers. You will work closely with network and operational teams to ensure the existing platform is secure and maintained to ensure capacity requirements and availability targets are met.The systems administration work on the Wifi platform is varied and could include:Planning large scale operating system patchingPlanning and undertaking deployment of changesDocumenting and raising change requestsOccasional overnight working to minimise risk of change to servicePro-active operational support to ensure service availability, monitoring and potentially fixing any in-life operational issues.Capacity managementDeep dives and analysis of in-life issuesPlanning systems administration for new TSA compliant platformExtending scope of existing automated patchingUrgent vulnerability out of hours patching You'll have the following responsibilitiesWe work as a team to deliver service to our customers' Wifi network with everyone playing a part.
As part of this role you can expect to:Take part in daily stand-ups and work as part of an agile team to break your work down into manageable user stories.Work with Wifi network and systems/server teams to dimension and realise production services.Apply security best practice when managing the platform.Support network and end to end test teams.You'll have the following skills & experienceYou will be passionate sharing knowledge and constantly looking to improve on best practice. You will enjoy the variety of tasks required to proactively manage platforms that make a real and immediate impact.The successful candidate will have a desire support the Wifi platfrom that delivers excellent operational performance coupled with strong knowledge and experience with the following:Linux system administrationDocker/Podman and containersOperational system administration experience of large scale high availability platformsExperience of VMWareExperience with some of the following would also be advantageous:Platform Monitoring ( e.g. CheckMK, Selenium)Java Garbage collection/memory managementBash scriptingContainersCacheUnderstanding of IP networking and RADIUSUse of SQL for Database queriesHazelcast CachesApache Kafka Streaming ArchitecturesSIEM event management toolsCassandra Database ReplicationIf you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.TPBN1_UKTJ